Introduction

What is The New Yorker? I know it’s a great magazine and that it’s a tremendous source of pleasure in my life. But what exactly is it? This blog’s premise is that The New Yorker is a work of art, as worthy of comment and analysis as, say, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Each week I review one or more aspects of the magazine’s latest issue. I suppose it’s possible to describe and analyze an entire issue, but I prefer to keep my reviews brief, and so I usually focus on just one or two pieces, to explore in each the signature style of its author. A piece by Nick Paumgarten is not like a piece by Jill Lepore, and neither is like a piece by Ian Frazier. One could not mistake Collins for Seabrook, or Bilger for Goldfield, or Mogelson for Kolbert. Each has found a style, and it is that style that I respond to as I read, and want to understand and describe.

Friday, October 18, 2019

I'm voting for Justin Trudeau



















Perusing the news at cbc.ca a couple of days ago, I discovered this arresting photo. It shows Justin Trudeau walking my favorite river, the Sylvia Grinnell. When I lived in Iqaluit, I walked that exact same spot many times. Trudeau is the only party leader to visit the North during the current election campaign. 

Recently, Barack Obama said,

I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He's a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term.

On October 21, I’m voting for Justin Trudeau. 
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